Yield Quotes · Page 8

Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.

— Neil Young

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

— Anthony Hope

A rich man may be wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who has discernment sees through him.

— Sharlene05

Dishonest money dwindles away, but he who gathers money little by little makes it grows.

— Sharlene05

Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact.

— John Burroughs

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

— Francis Bacon

A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love,…

— Henry David Thoreau

The pain is what you make of it. You have to find something in it that yields. I understood my guiding imperative…

— Leslie Jamison

It is not the mere study of the Law, but to become eminent in the profession of it, which is to yield…

— George Washington

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if…

— Walter Savage Landor

I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the…

— Marquis de Sade

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

— Marshall McLuhan

Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

— Gary Becker

No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?

— Sophocles

How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life…

— Abraham Kuyper

We learned long ago that liberty could be preserved only by limiting in some way the freedom of action of individuals; that…

— Louis D. Brandeis

I live! Red life boils in my veins, earth yields beneath my feet, in the glow of love I embrace trees and…

— Heinrich Heine

Is there a rarer being, Is there a fairer sphere Where the strong are not unseeing, And the harvests are not sere;…

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and…

— Hannah Arendt

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present…

— Leopold von Ranke

The poor yield to the rich, the common people to the upper ten, the servants to their masters, the ignorant to the…

— John Calvin

The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is not, that the judges…

— Joseph Story

Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and…

— Bennett Cerf

UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a…

— Noam Chomsky

What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration…

— Henry David Thoreau

If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then…

— Wendell Berry

So let us decide whether you want a shelter, a safety zone, which will no longer yield conflict, whether you want to…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

January. It was all things. And it was one thing, like a solid door. Its cold sealed the city in a gray…

— Patricia Highsmith

The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to…

— Anonymous

“In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to…

— Anonymous

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”

— Oscar Wilde

When the good man yields his breath (For the good man never dies).

— James Montgomery

I don't think performance out of duty yields very much. Coercion is never the way to go.

— Michael Hersch

Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

— Carlos Slim

Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.

— Ovid

Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other.

— Henry Vaughan

Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them.

— Napoleon Hill

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

— Quintilian